Alex

Sourdough starter?

Hey here! Does anybody have any suggestions on how to keep my sourdough starter alive, and a recipe to go with it?

Cherry in Spirit

During periods when you're baking infrequently, practically all you have to do is mix in some flour and water once in a while to keep it alive. It also super important to keep it refrigerated!

Peter Bancroft

To keep it alive you should refresh it every day, or if you're not going to bake with it put it in the fridge and refresh it once every week or so. To be honest I forget sometimes for a month and I'll take it out and refresh it with some warmer water and after a day or so it comes back to life. I use a 1:5:5 ratio, so I usually do 20g of starter to 100g of water and 100g of flour. I tend to use a 50/50 mix of strong white and wholemeal, but it depends of your preference.

Randy

keep in the refrigerator and remove half of it and give it half a cup of flower with half a cup water and mix . Do that once a week. I bake mine with bakers percentages. your flower weight is one hundred percent. 100% flower 76% water 15% starter and pinch of sea salt. I like using 600 grams of flour.